Viral Hits: Best of 2025

Social media hasn’t just changed how we communicate, but also what we listen to and how we hear it. Viral Hits is an up-to-the-minute playlist of tracks making the leap from your social channels into the broader cultural stream. In 2025, TikTok star Addison Rae offered “High Fashion” advice, warned that “Fame Is a Gun,” and saw her 2024 single “Diet Pepsi”—a sweet and fizzy song about losing your innocence in the back seat of a car—vault her to pop stardom. And wherever it is that you first encountered her, the singer is fine with that being your reference point as she evolves. “If you got introduced to me as Addison Rae, as most people did, I think you will always know me as that,” she tells Apple Music of her career moves. “I think for me and what making music is doing for just my own soul and heart is bringing me back to like the core of everything.” Because there’s no schedule for going viral, our editors update these selections throughout the week as needed, so if you hear something you want to hang on to, add it to your library. If it’s trending there, you’ll hear it here.